Prayers and Reflections in Season
God of unimaginable love, on the first Christmas You became one of us.
We celebrate Your love for every person in every place and time.
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I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,
and in his word I hope;
my soul waits for the Lord
more than those who watch for the morning,
more than those who watch for the morning.—Psalm 130: 5-6
What am I waiting for today?
To be reborn myself, of course. As always.
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In patience and in hope, let us offer our prayers to God, saying with one voice,
We rejoice with joy and singing
For the coming of the LORD is near.
Responsive prayers by Thomas Robb, for use on Advent I, or during the Green Season at the start of a new year of programming.
I beg you pray with me this morning for all of the various spiritual leaders of the world, and particularly the clergy of our church whose tasks so often resemble herding cats.
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by
Margaret D. McGee
So we make full circle and return again to the beginning, to Advent, the opening of a new year in the life of faith. The season when, around the world, hearts break open for the coming of the Christ child. A season when even our own rather damp, gray world may be revealed as the best and only place to hold the birth of love, life, and light.
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In this season of Advent, dear God, for the sake of new life, let me look ahead with courage and love.
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“Blessed are those … who have set their hearts on pilgrimage.” — Psalm 84:5
On December 6, 2008, I joined with women of St. Hugh of Lincoln Episcopal Church in Allyn, Washington for an Advent Quiet Day. Using themes of journeys and waiting, we shared stories and prayers, walked a spiral labyrinth, and shared a meal of soup and bread.
The prayers posted here were written at the Quiet Day and prayed aloud during our closing worship.
Continue reading “Prayers of a Quiet Day”Gather a bunch of women to think and talk about community for a day, and ka-boom, you get a community.
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A Guest Homily by
Lois Holly
Several times in the course of my life, I have made pacts with myself to read the Bible straight through in a year. I’ve forgotten the exact formula. I think maybe it was three chapters in the morning and two at night and you could complete the entire Bible in 365 days.
Well, Genesis was great—with wonderful stories and larger than life characters. And Exodus was good—with Moses and Pharaoh and burning bushes and the parting of the Red Sea. Real Cecil B. DeMille stuff!!
AND THEN I’D GET TO LEVITICUS !!
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“Do not let your hearts be troubled… In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, so that where I am, there you may be also. And you know the way to the place where I am going.”
— John 14:1-4
In the Courtyard 